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West Virginia University David Ryan Yale University
Autum Downey Christina Seeger Neta Bar
Grace Sutherland Erica Evans
Western Washington University Alexie Millikin
Eric Brown William Marsh Rice University Jasmina Wiemann
Cassandra King Ben Belzer
Eve Lalor Chenliang Wu
Katherine Lang

2019 GSA International, GSA Division, and

GSA Section Student Research Grants

GSA International, GSA Divisions, and GSA Sections have recognized the following student research grant
recipients who submitted proposals of exceptionally high merit in conception and presentation in their fields.
These students will be honored at the 2019 GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

GSA International Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology
Farouk El-Baz Student Research Grants Division
Nicholas McCarroll, Utah State University, for “Evolution of MGPV Division Student Research Grant Awards
the Book Cliffs Dryland Escarpment in Central Utah—Testing Mayara Fernanda Cizina, Boise State University
Models of Dryland Escarpment Retreat.” Maria Fahnestock, University of New Hampshire
Rachel Rotz, University of Georgia, for “Investigation of Linear Mebrahtu Weldeghebriel, State University of New York at
Dune Erosion and Lacustral Events in the Simpson Desert of Binghamton
Australia during the Late Quaternary.”
This grant is to encourage and support desert studies by Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division
students worldwide either in their senior year of their under- Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Research Award
graduate studies or at the master’s or Ph.D. level. Evan Thaler, University of Massachusetts
Arthur D. Howard Student Research Award
Division Graduate Research Grants Zena Robert, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Continental Scientific Drilling Division J. Hoover Mackin Student Research Award
Continental Scientific Drilling Division Student Research Grant Joel Gombiner, University of Washington
Samuel Duncanson, University of Minnesota Duluth Marie Morisawa Research Award
Collin Murphy, University of Minnesota Duluth Tess Walther, University of Maine
Marissa Spencer, Missouri University of Science and Stanley A. Schumm Research Grant Award
Technology John Kemper, Colorado State University
Caroline Studnicky, Utah State University
Sedimentary Geology Division
Geophysics & Geodynamics Division Sedimentary Geology Division Student Research Grant Award
Allan V. Cox Research Award and Supplement Eve Lalor, Western Washington University
Ogochukwu Ozotta, University of North Dakota
Geophysics Student Research Grant Award and Supplement Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Evan Hamilton, University of Oklahoma Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Student Research
Travel Grant Awards
Hydrogeology Division Michael Frothingham, University of Colorado Boulder
Hydrogeology Division Student Research Grant Awards and Katherine Lang, Western Washington University
Travel Grants Iva Lihter, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Patience Bosompemaa, Illinois State University Claire Ruggles, Iowa State University
Frank Marshall, University of North Carolina Wilmington Elijah Turner, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Haley Talbot-Wendlandt, University of Maryland
Allison Vincent, Boise State University
Valerie Voisin, Northern Illinois University

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